[Bards] Need help with formats

[GottfriedSBK]

Iambic tetrameter would be:

he came, he saw, conquered, the end.

True?

Gottfried
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Alden Drake 
  To: Ansteorran Bardic list 
  Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 11:05 AM
  Subject: Re: [Bards] Need help with formats


  1. Blank verse - I know nothing about this.  I like structure. :)

  2. Iambic pentameter is a poetic line containing five Iams.

  An Iam is a foot containing two syllables where the first is unstressed and the second is stressed. e.g.  (da DA)

  So iambic pentameter is: (da DA) (da DA) (da DA) (da DA) (da DA)

  example:

  Is this the face that launch'd a thousand ships?
  (is THIS the FACE that LAUNCH'D a THOUsand SHIPS)?

  Iambic tetrameter is pretty fun too (four iambic feet).

  3. I have some notes somewhere on Anglo-Saxon/Norse/Old English poetry from Thomas Atte Wood of Epping.  I'll see if I can find them.  

  ~Alden



  ED Reese <reese_esther at yahoo.com> wrote:
    Okay -- Blank Verse, what the heck is it? How do I do it? What did They use it for?

    I'm still struggling with Iambic Pentameter, too, but am beginning to see the idea of it -- thank you, Tiggy!

    Also, I'm looking for good info on the Norse forms, and the Anglo-Saxon forms, too. Same questions as above, especially, "How do I do it?"

    Thanks!

    Esther



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